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1 a manly man

2 a man of character

1 (coll.) he-man

1 no poison, no great man (idiom); A great man has to be ruthless.

1 A leader can submit or can stand tall as required.

2 ready to give and take

3 flexible

1 Guzhang county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiāng xī Tǔ jiā zú Miáo zú zì zhì zhōu]

1 ancient spear-like weapon 18 Chinese feet 尺[chǐ] in length, with a wavy spearhead like a snake's body,

1 to measure

2 measurement

1 wife's uncle

1 wife's aunt

1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)

2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline

3 to take a dive

1 (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)

1 to get really angry

1 towering buildings are built up from the ground (idiom)

2 great oaks from little acorns grow

1 zhang (Chinese unit of length equal to 3⅓ meters)

1 father-in-law (wife's father)

1 fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb)

2 fig. everything has its ancestral home

3 in old age, an expatriate returns home

1 樹高千丈，葉落歸根|树高千丈，叶落归根[shù gāo qiān zhàng

2 yè luò guī gēn]

1 丈二和尚，摸不著頭腦|丈二和尚，摸不着头脑[zhàng èr hé shang

2 mō bu zháo tóu nǎo]